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Current Books in Review

  1. Mordant Wit
  2. Jeffrey Meyers
  3. pp. xxxix-xli
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0092
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  1. Irwin on Fitzgerald
  2. James L. W. West III
  3. pp. xxxvii-xxxviii
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0075
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  1. Information Storage and the Joseph Story
  2. Sanford Pinsker
  3. pp. xli-xliii
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0093
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  1. A Rollicking Satire
  2. Joan Givner
  3. pp. xliii-xlv
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0090
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  1. Epiphanies and Surprises
  2. Brendan Galvin
  3. pp. xlv-xlvi
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0091
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. xlvii-xlviii
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0078
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Fiction

  1. A Change in the Weather
  2. Nancy Huddleston Packer
  3. pp. 345-380
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0081
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  1. Animal Tracks
  2. Ernest J. Finney
  3. pp. 381-393
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0084
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  1. Lucky
  2. Kent Nelson
  3. pp. 394-407
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0087
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  1. Lives Half-Lived
  2. Susan McCallum-Smith
  3. pp. 408-427
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0070
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  1. The Old Gentleman
  2. John J. Clayton
  3. pp. 428-444
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0073
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Poetry

  1. An Underworld of Elegies
  2. T. Alan Broughton
  3. pp. 445-448
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0077
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  1. Shadows
  2. Fred Chappell
  3. pp. 449-452
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0080
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  1. Traces
  2. Len Krisak
  3. pp. 453-454
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0083
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  1. Harboring Spirits
  2. Gladys Swan
  3. pp. 455-458
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0086
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Essay

  1. Norman Mailer, Theodore Dreiser, and the Politics of American Literary History
  2. Donald Pizer
  3. pp. 459-472
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0089
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The State of Letters

  1. The Literary Feud
  2. David Heddendorf
  3. pp. 473-478
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0072
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  1. Sad Rags: Tales of Enchanted Dresses
  2. Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
  3. pp. 478-483
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0076
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  1. Rome to Ravello with Set This House on Fire
  2. Gavin Cologne-Brookes
  3. pp. 484-494
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0079
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  1. Kathryn Stockett’s The Help: A Memoir
  2. H. Gaston Hall
  3. pp. 494-499
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0082
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  1. Joan Didion Daughter of Old California
  2. Robert Lacy
  3. pp. 500-505
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0085
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Arts and Letters

  1. Fairness and Reciprocity
  2. Merritt Mosely
  3. pp. 506-514
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0088
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  1. Neville Jason’s Proust
  2. Michael Mott
  3. pp. 514-519
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0071
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  1. Revaluation a Salute to Robertson Davies
  2. George Core
  3. pp. 519-521
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2014.0074
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In Memory of:

Maxine Kumin
1925–2014
Woman of Letters: poet, essayist, and critic.
Winner of the Aiken Taylor Award
in Modern American Poetry in 1995

Vern Rutsala
1934–2014
Poet, prose-poet, and teacher
contributor to the SR, 1982–2002

“For all the casual language,
there is precision of metaphor; for all
the quietness, a moving force;
and for all the commonplace experiences,
a genuine significance” — R. D. Spector